skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I am a startup using the cloud, html5 and synergy to collate data. My company just got invested $15,000,000. Profits? What are profits?"
Gzip could certainly be abused.
What's the difference between "Subscribers" and "Freemium" here? It seems to me that the freemium models requires paid subscribers.
It takes just common sense thinking to understand that most of this reasoning is just crap. Suggesting to put that in a machine learning language is is even more depressing.

Could you be so kind as to elaborate on some of this common sense thinking? I must lack the same common sense you possess, because it seems to me that the parent comment makes a compelling case in favor of further study of the synaptogenesis hypothesis. I did not get the impression that kevinalexbrown was claiming that depression is caused by depletion of synapses, but rather summarizing for the record that this is the model suggested by the observed effectiveness of ketamine.
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This is something newbies repeat to justify their choice of a piss poor implementation. Sure with 10 users hitting your Rails app it might perform the same as Nginx with a custom C handler talking to a database written in C, but increase the load and soon your handing Amazon thousands a month on ec2 nodes while I am still on a small Linode. The funny thing is because of code gen and experience I can probably write my app faster than you dicking around with framework after framework
And rightly so. If your reaction to his death here was to go into flag-mode and just not let the front page be filled for one day with a story that so clearly affected the community, then I've got no problems with your flag rights being taken away.

It's an odd reaction that's honestly somewhat puzzling.
The antidepressant effects are found at even half of that.
I say teach them the business. Statistics is a fine tool, but you need to know what you are doing. You can build a regression line to predict sales in a given month, but you migh forget important drivers or to just ask people with experience.

On top of that, remember that looking at the past to predict the future does not always work. First, because you might not have a past (if you are a start up...); second, because new tech and facts might screw up your regression analysis very easily, especially in a fast moving sector (and if you are a start up...).

Said that, I find simple descriptive statistics very useful, I wish people in business knew at least what a variance is.
Maybe. But by reading his article even if it were a Pareto distribution, his arguments would have been valid. While the pieces of advice he gave are good, the pseudo-scientific explanation behind his intuitions ("The metric probably follows a normal distribution...", "I ran a Monte-Carlo simulation... " baffles me.
How about worrying about both equally, if you still don't get it see Diaspora, great idea and lots of buzz, but implementation was shit and it was DOA.
Yes they will, there was a post a while back which used this to bomb the browser.
Thanks !

Yeah well, I wasn't nitpicking on the technical sense of web. I was just confused because it said first "mobile or mobile-web" and later "web or mobile web".
Definitely a Fredudian typo, Freudian would have been "Good fuck".
Please build this. Ironically it's sounds feasible to some degree.
I know exactly what you mean. iOS and the App Store gave me a chance to write and sell software that I wouldn't have had otherwise. I launched my first app in my final year of high school and because of the opportunities the platform provided I was able to:

- quit my part-time job

- decide to turn down a University offer (which I didn't really want to take but without any other real option I would have anyway)

- run my own business for the last 3.5 years

- spend 6 months in Canada

If it weren't for iOS and the App Store I would have went to University (something I really didn't want to do) and I would still have another year before graduating (not to mention the loans I would have to take out). Instead I've lived abroad, experienced running a business and had a lot of fun.
Also one can try to bomb virus scanners (on PC or on a mail server (using e-mail attachment)) or any other service which supports uploading+extracting zip files.
That's why it's normal these days, for clinical studies, for the control group to receive current best available treatment, rather than a placebo.

After all, what you're generally trying to find out is whether the new treatment is better than what you already have - just being better than a placebo isn't very informative.

If you're interested in this sort of thing, I strongly recommend reading Ben Goldacre's work[1].

[1] Start at badscience.net.
They do this all the time with every drug the FDA tests. People have a disease and they use a control group that receives a placebo. It's the only way drugs are finally proven to work in humans.
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Here are some other compression curiosities:

(http://www.maximumcompression.com/compression_fun.php)

It includes a 115 byte rar file that expands to 5 Mb. (That 115 bytes can be squashed down further; one compressor gets it to 39 bytes.); a file that compresses with one software but ends up bigger with another software; etc.

some say that file compression is linked to AI - good general purpose compression relies on being able to predict the text and create table; if you can predict something you understand it.

The Hutter prize tests this against the 100 Mb of enwiki8. Best attempt so far is a bit less than 16 Mb.

(http://prize.hutter1.net/)
I remember zip bombs from early 90s BBSing. I also remember ANSI bombs.
If you are depressed, until you can find a solution, please use all your intellectual might to fight against the emotional bondage of depression and hold on to the rational knowledge that there remains a better existence out there, and that one day you will find it.
I've noticed I do this (use "message templates"), and I suspect it's the result of learning English by reading stuff on the internet. I assume whatever people use the most without being corrected is the right way to use English in informal situations and I try to do the same.

But in my native language I do get irritated by bad style, so I can only sympathize with you. After all - most of the world abuse English :)
> It takes thought and creativity (and research) to make an interface that is inherently flexible and usable by just about anyone

By and large all you have to do is do things the easy, straightforward, normal, recommended way. People put a lot of thought, creativity and money into making things unusable.
Nowadays I get OOM while running only FireFox and Netbeans - and I am not even running software I develop on my box :P
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At least with Netflix, there is no free option. I think in this case, 'Subscribers' means that the service requires a subscription to use it at all (whereas freemium has tiered service levels).
Best bit of the article:

http://i.imgur.com/1sLPB.png

what the fuck Alex Wilhelm?
The fact that you don't do your homework doesn't mean what this guy is doing is righteous.
This is universally true.
number of IE10 users is a rounding error... why would a (presumably) solo developer waste precious time supporting it?
I wouldn't say our field devalues competence and experience. It's just that in our field seniority doesn't give you such an enormous advantage as in other fields. In many professions, if you are 40+ you will expect a multiple of the salary that an equally competent 25 years old gets. Software engineering is more of a meritocracy, you may get paid a lot even at a young age if you're good, and it won't get much better with age unless your skills also get better (and in practice, contrary to what all of us like to believe, it's hard to get significantly better over time.)

The contrast with other professions is so great that this age-blindness seems like age-based discrimination, kind of like a 80 degrees pool seems cold if you've just jumped out of a hot tub.
My buddy suffers from cluster headaches and he self-retreated with low doses of LSD. But he was talking to his doctor in the last year, and he learned that there are ergotamine-based cluster headache medications. LSD also comes from that chemical, so he jumped on the opportunity.

He's been cluster-headache free since January, and he's really happy that he doesn't have to rely on the black market for medication.
Every 30 or 60 seconds + the data's timestamped so it's usually a pretty minimal refresh.

It's really just like using any memcached or the built in .net caching rather than a write through one, new data reaches each dyno either via the periodic refresh or when it tries to create that record and finds it already exists. Writes are done immediately and the caches don't get updated because there's 8 - 16 dynos and why bother updating the single dyno that created it.

I did originally use redis pub/sub to push out updates to everything but I ended up removing it because it was unnecessary.

Here's some example code, it pre-fetches all the leaderboards (not scores) every 30 seconds: http://pastebin.com/asq6eExu

Higher up in the same script is the api for the leaderboard data with stuff like: http://pastebin.com/gsfvsZsv
It looks really naive that civilizations so advanced to blot out an entire star for its energy can't even find a way to co exist in such a vast universe.

But looking at how fellow humans behave with each other. I would say that is definitely a possibility.
Great point. I think a lot of us who still love programming after 20 years or more enjoy the constant change in the industry and the never ending opportunities to learn.
"names that sound good" - like iptech-group?

fancy functions, but no actual examples?

spending more than an hour for the name sounds like procrastination for bootstrappers

not that i don't do it too..
The questions are BS and nothing special compared to those from other interviewers pretending to have found the silver bullet.
Ethics committees introduce weird results.

Ben Goldacre talks about it here (http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/when-ethics-committees-kil...)

We have a variety of treatments that work for some people, but not for others. Combining these sometimes-effective evidence based treatments with the ethics panel weirdness above makes it hard.

People with depression are at increased risk of suicide. They are also at increased risk of suicide during recovery. (Perhaps they are so depressed that they lack motivation to complete suicide, and recovery gives them enough motivation to complete suicide but not enough mood recovery to stop).
I just learned I could copy and paste things easily using some mysterious keyboard shortcuts. Should I share it on HN? Surely someone isn't aware of that great (shall I say life-saving) feature?
Startups don't have time to worry about who calls themselves startups, they're too busy shipping awesome products.

Or in the fine words of Shakespeare:
"What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;"
Same here, but we are in the minority. http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and...

We do not plan to support ISO C features that are not part of either C90 or ISO C++. I understand C programmers may be disappointed or angry with this answer and I'm sorry to have to say no here. It's true, and very quotable, that "focus means saying no," but that doesn't make it easy to say -- it is hard to say no to you, and I'm sorry to say it. But we have to choose a focus, and our focus is to implement and innovate in C++.
Not surprising, especially if you've ever used their interface or API. I'm reasonably certain that they don't have any indexes.

Slowest API ever....
I hope someone will implement it and join it with domain registration form so I will never see a project with from .io and .ly breed ;)
Freemium simply means there's a free component to a premium service. The premium part could be subscribers, but it could also be a one-time app payment (with a free app equivalent) or even custom services.

Freemium's the odd one out here - it's really a separate dimension - do you have a free offering or not? So any company listed here as freemium should also be accompanied by at least one other (actual) revenue model.
Ketamine is a commonly used, fully tested anaesthetic. Every ambulance has a stock of it because it's the safest anesthetic to use in emergency situations. It's not an anti depressant, it's not approved as one. But the recent interest is because it can stop depression in hours whereas the anti depressants take days to weeks. So for suicidal individuals it's very important.
Hosting web sites on AWS requires EC2, which is basically a VPS. EC2 is probably one of the worst available options if you are looking for UI and reliability. The lack of reliability is a feature of EC2 as your instances can just disappear with no warning. I don't know what your requirements are for UI, but EC2 started out as a command line only interface and it's not much better today. EC2 now has a console that you can use to start and stop services, but there is nothing to help you create a working hosting environment.Creating a robust environment for your needs is likely more trouble than it's worth with EC2.

Look into similar services such as Rackspace cloud servers which has similar offerings in a more traditional package. Rackspace also offers managed VPS packages. For your purposes you probably won't need anything more than 512MB or 1GB of RAM.
Hacker News has a few readers who self-experiment with a variety of substances.

I'm not trying to stop them, but there are reports of Ketamine abuse being damaging to the bladder. Some people have had their bladders removed.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17411492)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17344089)

I have no idea on the dosing needed for harmful effects - is several large doses enough? Would very many small doses be harmful?

Some people taking anti-depressants do so for a long time. Most are recommended to take them for at least two years to prevent relapse, but some medications (especially venlafaxine) can be hard to come off. (I've been told that I'll probably be taking venlafaxine for the rest of my life.)

So, this news is exciting because better understanding of mental health problems is really important, and better treatments would be fantastic. But please be careful when self-experimenting with possible nootropics.
2 troll comments in the same post.

Man, I wish PG or someone would just ban some people.
The link to the Amazon Prime source is wrong. Now it goes to: http://googleadsenserevenue.org/google-adsense-revenue/how-d...
>>do we want to broadcast the fact of our own existence across interstellar distances?

We are already doing it(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message). We are also sent a probe with heck lot of details on it(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record).

>>This is actually an active debate topic among those who think about stuff like this.

True, but we have always been sending radio signals in space and probably will continue to.
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Unintentional contradiction two messages down the thread: Linus says "But note: none of these rules should be absolutely black-and-white. Nothing in life ever is."

Or perhaps intentional. I can never tell when I read a Linus fiat.

http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/...
Dyson sphere is basically designing energy harvesting mechanisms for nuclear fusion.
I think it's just whatever .NET's doing to pool them that has some tiny bit of overhead that doesn't matter most of the time.
The speed of their transaction search actively discourages me using it. It is extremely slow even when searching by the transaction Id which you would assume at least that would have a decent index on it.
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"I love this question because it washes out every idiot who learned how to use the Rails or Django ORM and now thinks they’re some wizard at SQL."

Because it eliminates many people of a certain early skill/experience level. Which is fine but don't call sincere people idiots. We're all on a continuum.
Although I generally dislike Apple I felt sad that day. Jobs was by any measure a giant of our industry. Even if you didn't like him as a person, and many don't, his passion inspired a whole generation.
Anand is too optimistic about Apple adopting Intel chips in iPads or iPhones in the future. Personally, I don't think that's ever going to happen, and I don't think it makes any sense either. Apple is trying to become an ever more integrated company, and apparently making their own chip is becoming very important to them. And recent rumors start pointing to the same conclusion, although we probably won't see this happening until 2014:

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/apple-reported...

From what I hear Haswell will be significantly more expensive than Ivy Bridge, too, so again, to me it looks Intel is becoming less competitive with ARM, not more. But I think having full control over their chips matters more than anything else to Apple, and I think they will move there at least gradually. Apple's A6 is a significant step in that direction, and I don't see them moving back from it.
doeses for treatment and for recreation usually vary in orders of magnitude, but I am not sure what exact recrational K and what is medicinal dose of K for treatment in the research trial.
Perl6 gets it right:

$ perl6
> (0.3 - 0.2) == (0.2 - 0.1)
True

Because Perl6 use Rationals by default:

> (0.3 - 0.2).perl
1/10

To get it to work in perl5 you need to use bigrat pragma:

$ re.pl
> (0.3 - 0.2) == (0.2 - 0.1)

> use bigrat;
> (0.3 - 0.2) == (0.2 - 0.1)
1

I think Clojure is another language that uses Rationals by default.
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Suggestion: Unique URLs for each filter (via HTML5 history/pushState).
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"... create a digital profile of who will likely perpetrate online fraud, ..."

How do you deal with false positives?
If Zynga had been smart with OMGPOP they'd have probably made a fortune from it, but instead they did what they did to Words With Friends and killed it. Amazingly when you start dropping the quality of the game, making it increasingly spammy and introduce seriously reliability issues people aren't going to return, and there's your profit centre gone.
Regardless if an organization has a business model or if they're still searching for one, the organization must be a business because businesses have business models (non-profits have/need business models too). Some business models fail, some prosper.

A model, generally speaking, is a lot like a map in that it serves its purpose as being a guide. What do I mean? Let's say I want to travel to France. I can look at a globe and get a pretty good idea of where France is and thus where I need to go. However, once I arrive in France, let's say Paris, that globe is not very useful anymore. I need a more narrow map to help me navigate Paris, so I buy a new map, or rather, I make a new model.

Models are meant to help us think about how to navigate a problem, and they change over time because models are not absolute truths. In that sense, since both startups and businesses have business models, perhaps the right logical segmentation is something to the extent that startups are merely a subset of businesses.

Then again, none of this really matters. I just tell people I'm starting a company.
There was the all Erlang front page, a few years ago, if memory serves.

(HN got airplay somewhere, it was a scare-away-the-newbs prank.)
People can come into a relationship with preconcieved notions of the other person based on steryotypes. A white man might get annoyed when his Japanese girlfriend stands up for herself ("After all aren't they all supposed to be meek and docile, what's the point of dating a japanese girl if they aren't the same"), a white woman might get annoyed when her latino boyfriend won't get aggressive when another man hits on her ("Aren't Latinos supposed to be fiery, passionate and stand up for their woman (me)? What's wrong with this guy that he won't start a fight over me?"), someone might feel cheated or let down when their black male partner does not have a massive penis ("they are all supposed to be big!").

These preconceived notions can interfere with relationships and put pressure on people to act in certain ways, which might not be in keeping with who they actually are.
Facebooks private messages are censored. Here in the western world we can not message one another freely when using this Facebook, of which many think are some kind of nice private messaging system like email. Its not and never was. For example try to send a thepiratebay.org link to your friends as a private message. Who knows what more they censor, perhaps the really interesting bits to censor seem to you like they have been delivered, but facebook never actually shows it to your firend. You would never know.

Also, you cant send life-changing notifications through messages to all your friends, for example there is a cap I think on to message 30 people at once.
A message from Tim Cook, Apple's CEO.
A message from Tim Cook, Apple's CEO.

Steve’s passing one year ago today was a sad and difficult time for all of us. I hope that today everyone will reﬂect on his extraordinary life and the many ways he made the world a better place.

One of the greatest gifts Steve gave to the world is Apple. No company has ever inspired such creativity or set such high standards for itself. Our values originated from Steve and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple. We share the great privilege and responsibility of carrying his legacy into the future.

I’m incredibly proud of the work we are doing, delivering products that our customers love and dreaming up new ones that will delight them down the road. It’s a wonderful tribute to Steve’s memory and everything he stood for.

Tim
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I guess that is theoretically possible, insofar as anything can be reverse engineered.

It's probably easier to kick down the door, though.
Where does he say that? He seems to be saying the opposite here, about Apple dropping Intel for laptops:

"There's even more reason to worry if the post-Steve Apple/Intel relationship has fallen on tough times. While I don't share Charlie's view of Apple dropping Intel as being a done deal, I know there's truth behind his words."